Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! We've got a Tex Mex theme this month with what ya eatin'? - Renee has been creating delicious southwest chicken burritos, and Louise has "discovered" the joy of the taco salad. We've got another goddess episode for you, and this week we are talking about Demeter. We heard a bit about Demeter in our Persephone episode, but this episode we dive into her side of the story and the lessons we can learn from this harvest goddess. Then, a...
Jul 16, 2025•47 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Send us a text This week we're joined once again by the amazing Mary Ellen of Nourished by Mary Ellen. Before we delve into your area of expertise, we had to ask her some weird and wonderful witchy would you rather questions about the moon and the body. Then Mary Ellen shares her knowledge about how to nurture your whole self using the insights you can gain from your natal moon sign in astrology. She teaches you how your unique moon sign can show you how and where to feed yourself, move your bod...
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 17 min•Season 1Ep. 213
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! It's July, so we have our July tarot forecast - let's see what the end of Cancer season and the start of Leo season are going to bring! This week we are talking about working with deities. Do you have to work with deities to be a witch? How can I connect with deities? Should I be wary of being tricked by deities? These are all questions we ask and answer on this week's episode. And then we end, as always, with awesomeness. Renee ha...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 212
Send us a text This week, we're starting with some witchy wisdom for a listener who's tempted to rage quit her job due to a difficult personality. We share our wisdom to help release those feelings and clear the way for something better to come into your life. Then we're sharing our knowledge about planetary Magick. From the Sun to Pluto, we're sharing the energies of each planet along with some correspondences to help you put a planet in a spell jar. Each planet brings us something unique that ...
Jun 25, 2025•1 hr 19 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Send us a text Welcome back to the coven of Awesomeness Podcast! This week we have the enchanting Sarah from Rook Botanics with us to talk all about the folklore of flowers. But first, delicious food. Renee has been making cheddar cheese risotto, Louise is obsessing over a steak sandwich, and Sarah has been eating delicious pastries. Then Sarah talks to us about the magic of flowers. We talk about the use of flowers throughout history, the Victorian language of flowers, and choosing flowers that...
Jun 18, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 210
Send us a text We're getting ready for the summer solstice this week, but first, we're playing a wild round of witchy would you rather. From weird bathroom related questions to potential hypothermia, we're showing our weird side in this edition. Then we revisit the sabbat of Litha, which marks midsummer and the longest day of the year. We share tips on how you can celebrate this day and harvest it's energy. And as always, we give you plenty of ideas of what you can eat because we can't stop talk...
Jun 11, 2025•52 min•Season 1Ep. 209
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! We've officially been making this podcast for 4 years! But first, it's time for June tarot. We're pulling cards for the month of June, and trying to claw our way through the dreaded Cancer season, but don't worry friends, we've got this! Can you believe we've been going for 4 years?? Neither can we. We spend some time reflecting on the last year of the pod and share our goals for the next year of podcasting. Then, as is tradition o...
Jun 04, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Send us a text We're welcome the amazing James Sholto fo AT88 this week. He'll be teaching us all about Alexander Technique, but first, we need to know what we're eating. Louise has discovered a new favorite tortilla chip, Renee is giving you a great use for stale croissants, and James is having an existential crisis about boiled eggs. Then, James tells his story of transforming from a viola player with chronic pain and performance anxiety to a confident Alexander Technique teacher. This method ...
May 28, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Send us a text Welcome back tot he Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! This week we have Lynne, a fabulous Lifestyle Medicine Nurse who is going to share with us the wonders of HRT (hormone Replacement Therapy). But before we get to the juicy bit, we have Witchy Wisdom! This month, a listener is asking if leaving your moon water or crystals out in the sun will "ruin" the moon's work. Lynne then talks us through the magic of HRT and how it can support people experiencing symptoms of menopause. We talk ...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 206
Send us a text Welcome back to The Coven of Awesomeness Podcast. We're kicking off this week with something delicious. Renee is making healthy-ish pancakes and Louise is trying out some small plates at a new Glasgow restaurant. Then we continue our goddess series with the Hawaiian volcano goddess, Pele. She is not a sweet and patient goddess. Like her active volcano, Kilauea, Pele is unpredictable, explosive, and expansive. Through destruction, she creates the land. Listen in to learn how to wor...
May 15, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! Due to an unexpected change in circumstances we had to change up our topic this week, and so we decided to do an Ask Us Anything! But first, Witchy Would You Rather. This month, Louise is curious about reincarnation, and Renee is wondering about power vs respect. We asked our community for questions this week, and we rolled a nerd dice to choose which questions to answer! We talk about what we're reading and watching at the moment,...
May 07, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Send us a text Welcome to May, witches! We're opening up with our monthly Tarot forecast, giving you guidance on how to create abundance and connection in the month to come. Then we're addressing a listener suggested topic, using witchcraft in relationships. How can we use our magick to enhance our connections with other humans without infringing on the free will of others. We touch on doing spells on other people, digging into shadow work, and using witchcraft to make yourself more awesome so y...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Season 1Ep. 203
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! We're back with Witchy Wisdom, and this month we are giving some advice about reading tarot for your friends and family. The Wheel of the Year has turned again and we are approaching Beltane! We revisit this juicy sabbat and share some information on the purpose of Beltane, our favourite ways to celebrate, and, as always, what delicious food we'll be eating. We finish, as always, with awesomeness. Renee has been watching some nosta...
Apr 23, 2025•55 min•Season 1Ep. 202
Send us a text We're returning to our goddess series this month with a dark, Irish goddess. But first, we're eating something awesome. Louise went into full Taurus mode on her last trip to Costco and came home with ridiculous amounts of a favorite snack. And Renee baked Caramel Swirl Cheesecake Bars, and everyone lost their minds. Then we're sharing our thoughts on The Morrigan, the Irish goddess of war and death. She's got intense vibes but also brings us the courage to fight for what we believ...
Apr 16, 2025•48 min•Season 1Ep. 201
Send us a text IT'S OUR 200TH EPISODE!!!! Can you believe it? We certainly can't! We're so grateful to you all for listening to us every week, and we wanted to give back to you, so we're hosting a super awesome giveaway! We have some amazing prizes lined up from some of our podcast besties that we'll be giving away to 5 lucky winners! Enter the giveaway!!! After all the excitement of the giveaway, we get into Witchy Would You Rather. Renee is asking about waiting at traffic lights or in queues, ...
Apr 09, 2025•53 min•Season 1Ep. 200
Send us a text We're kicking off April with a growth-focused Tarot forecast for Spring. We explore how you can be more bold, create safety, and support yourself through change. This guidance is beautiful. Then we're exploring all your questions about how to reconcile our religious trauma with our practice of witchcraft. There are a lot of similarities, but it's the differences that tend to cause us the most stress. We'll help you embrace how to step into your full power as a witch who is free fr...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! This week we have the absolutely incredible Tina from Awesome Hugs joining us! We start the episode with Witchy Wisdom, and this month we are giving some witchy advice to a listener who is looking for a bit of support with how to get back into their magical practice. Tina has joined us this week to tell us all about EFT tapping. She talks us through what it is, what it looks like, and how it can help make your life more awesome. Ti...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 198
Send us a text We're back with another inspirational epside. Let's kick things off this week with delicious food. Louise went on a quest for amazing stuffed cookies while Renee is cooking up Buffalo Deviled Eggs just in time for Ostara and Easter. Then we talk about how to find your inspiration. From tapping into your intuition, listening to your body, and finding those signs from the Universe, we share lots of ideas on how to get out of a rut. If you want to feel inspired, you have to create sp...
Mar 20, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 197
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! We're back with our next instalment of our Wheel of the Year revisited series, but first - Witchy Would You Rather! Renee poses the scenario of never wearing makeup again, and Louise wants to know if you would rather have bunny teeth or a bunny tail. This week we are revisiting Ostara. It's the Spring Equinox and life is returning to the earth! we talk about what Ostara means, what we do to celebrate, and we share some delicious fo...
Mar 13, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 196
Send us a text This week, we're joined by Victoria Cunningham, the founder of Ordinary People Academy , where ordinary people can become extraordinary yoga, pilates, and breathwork teachers. You're gonna love the wisdom she has to share. First, though, we start with our May Tarot forecast. Listen in to get your guidance for how to grow and become more creative and connected this month. Then Victoria teaches how to use our breath, both to deal with everyday stress and to help process deeper traum...
Mar 06, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 1Ep. 195
Send us a text This week, we're joined by the incredible Emma McElhinney of Eat Move Win . Emma is a perimenopause specialist and behavior change coach who helps women feel awesome as they navigate their Queenager era. We start the show with witchy wisdom, sharing our tips on how you can take a miserable cave of an office and turn it into a higher vibe atmosphere. We share covert tips for protecting your energy, cleansing your space, and bringing a feeling of vibrancy into a stagnant space. Then...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Send us a text This is your sign that you've landed on an awesome podcast. Welcome to the coven! This week, we open with delicious food. Louise is making a lactose-free version of one of Renee's signature recipes, and Renee puts a savoury twist on a sweet breakfast classic. Then we dig into exploring signs from the Universe. How do you know when something is a sign? How do you know when your ego is trying to talk you out of being awesome and taking a risk? Getting confident with reading the sign...
Feb 20, 2025•56 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness! This week we have another podcast bestie back with us - Paula from The Guided Bohemian ! Paula is here to talk to us about the magic of hands, but first we start off with Witchy Would You Rather. This month we discuss the pros and cons of having hot dogs for fingers, as well as the benefits of having a pause button for life. Then we get into talking about magical hands. We talk about different ways we can use our hands to bring magic into ...
Feb 13, 2025•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 192
Send us a text This week, we're joined by The Biz Witch, Emma Anderson. We start off with our February tarot forecast, giving you guidance for Aquarius and Pisces seasons. We're digging into our imaginations with patience and letting unhelpful energy fall away. Then, Emma shares her wisdom about how to combine astrology and moon magic to make your life more awesome. She teaches us about the elemental energy of each moon sign so that we can learn to work in harmony with the energy available to us...
Feb 06, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Season 1Ep. 191
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! This week we have the wonderful Lisa from The Dog Witch here to talk to us about magical dog care. But first, food! Renee is making us drool with buffalo chicken twice baked potatoes, Louise is loving a bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, and Lisa is making delicious ice cream that can be shared with the whole family - two-legged and four-legged! We then chat to Lisa about how to bring some magic into your dog care. Lisa tells us how s...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 190
Send us a text We're back for another wheel of the year episode this week. But first, we're sharing our wisdom on how to handle your Tarot and oracle cards. If you've been listening for a while, you already know the answer. Then we're sharing our thoughts on Imbolc, a lesser known and underappreciated sabbat. In between talking about cheese, we also share the significance of what's happening in nature. And we explore how you can harness the energy of Imbolc to make your life more awesome. Then R...
Jan 23, 2025•52 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Send us a text Welcome back to the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! The festive season is an excuse to eat delicious foods, and we have not been slacking in that department! Renee has made a delicious chicken and bacon pasta, and Louise's family have been gorging on Boursin cheese. We're starting the year off with a silly one - we're talking about memes! As a self-professed Meme Queen, Louise shares why memes bring her so much joy. We finish, as always, with awesomeness. Louise has been using her s...
Jan 16, 2025•54 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Send us a text Welcome to another time warped episode of The Coven of Awesomeness Podcast. We're bringing you a sticky Witchy Would You Rather this week with a couple of very difficult and shadowy choices. Then we're discussing shadow work once again, and answering your questions about this sometimes unpleasant but necessary healing practice. We disucss what shadow work is and how you can begin to venture into it on your own. We remind you of how to support yourself through this practice and giv...
Jan 09, 2025•58 min•Season 1Ep. 187
Send us a text Happy New Year from the Coven of Awesomeness Podcast! Can you believe we're in 2025? Let's kick off the year with our January Tarot Spread, looking at vibes for the year, how we can make progress, and how we can be part of the collective. Since it's a new year, we're doing our 2025 vision boards. We review what we have achieved in the last year and what we want to achieve in the year ahead. We're talking growth, expansion and adventure over here! We finish, as always, with awesome...
Jan 02, 2025•59 min•Season 1Ep. 186
Send us a text We've got a totally awesome guest this week. We're welcoming Mary Ellen Valverde of Nourished by ME to talk about how she uses cacao in her spiritual and self-care practice. But first, she's helping us bring some witchy wisdom to a listener who wants to build up her spiritual tool box. Then Mary Ellen answer's Renee and Louise's burning questions about cacao. How do you make it? Why is it not as delicious as chocolate? What makes it "ceremonial?" Who's it for? And most importantly...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 185
